VIII. Executive officers' papers, 1914-1971. [series]: This correspondence covers a wide variety of topics, including the struggles of the union after its break from the United Garment Workers; its organizing campaigns in the major clothing manufacturing centers in the U.S. and Canada; locals and joint boards of the ACWU; charitable organizations; the depression and its impact on the clothing industry; the New Deal; politics and political organizations, including the American Labor Party; strikes and lockouts in the men's garment industry; union business matters; women in the union; worker education; and working conditions in the garment industry.

Correspondence documents his experiences organizing Italian clothing workers, his activities on behalf of the ACWA's Italian local and his work with the CIO's Textile Workers' Organizing Committee - some letters are written in Italian. 1914-1953.